Re: Condensing multiple re, fw and fwds (was Removeing RE and Prefix)

2002-03-09 Thread Simeon Nevel
On 28 Feb 2002 at 21:57, Simeon Nevel wrote: > > I currently preprocess my incoming messages with a perl prog consisting > a long series of regexps to deal with this. Someone asked that I post my perl pre-processor that deals with multiple re & fwd strings. It also handles some other stuff

RE: Condensing multiple re, fw and fwds (was Removeing RE and Prefix)

2002-02-28 Thread Morse, Richard E.
Completely untested, but you could try: s/(Re:\s*|Fwd:\s*)+/Re:/ Note, of course, that this turns all 'Fwd:'s into 'Re:'s Ricky -Original Message- From: Simeon Nevel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday 28 February 2002 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Condensing multiple re

Re: Condensing multiple re, fw and fwds (was Removeing RE and Prefix)

2002-02-28 Thread Earl Hood
On February 28, 2002 at 21:57, Simeon Nevel wrote: > > Re: Fwd: Re[2]: Fwd: Re: [sftest] ME TOO! > While we're on the subject.. is there a single regexp that can reduce an > an abitrary collection of Re's and Fwd's to a single Re: ? > > I currently preprocess my incoming messages with a perl